Coises Writes

Coises... foiled again!

• My weblog / journal
  • allegory
  • animals
  • Costa Rica
  • food (including “The Subgourmet Kitchen”)
  • humor (including “The Old and the Young”)
  • LGBT issues
  • music
  • Name That Tune
  • opinion
  • poetry
  • politics
  • psychobabble
  • reviews
  • software
  • writings
• Kindred Spirits

That was the way it was

• Déjà Coises: The adventures of your humble webmeister in the uncharted wilderness of Usenet.

If I make a mark in time

• Aquarius Revisited (31 July 1998): An Amazon.com Customer Review of this book (which somehow came out sounding rather like an advertising blurb) has the dubious distinction of being the first thing I wrote to appear on the World Wide Web.
• Art Is Not a Zero-Sum Game (7 August 1998): an essay originally posted to Electronic Musician magazine's Perspectives discussion board (which is apparently no longer accessible)
• Shampoo (29 December 1998): a movie review for IMDb
• What Napster Means (8 June 2000): an open letter to Metallica, et al.
• Morality and Ethics (22 August 2000): a brief essay suggesting a distinction between morality and ethics
• Amazon.com reviews (23 October 2002 to the present)
• Democracy, Ends and Means (17 March 2009): an essay suggesting a failure mode of contemporary US democracy